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No article which Ib defamatory or of-} fensivoly personal can find place in our columns at ?ny price, and we are not respousible for opinions expressed in any communication. BObflH, H. OL* VKK. 2S, l?ll. What Dr. Steele .said in reference j to the establishment of a park, in his opening remarks at the Method-; ist church SXinday morning, was timely and to the point. The establishment of a playground for the children has been agitated through j these* columns for many years, but! our words have fallen on deaf en re. J Every town and city of any preten- j sions has its public play ground. The people of the progressive New i England towns nttach as much im.portauce to the "town park" as they .do to their schools aud houses of \ 'worship. Every small town and' hnmlot Host its* nublir nil! v frrnnnil ! and It is a common sight to sec i scores and scores of children romp- i ing and playing and breathing thej pure, fresh, invigorating air every; garner afternoon. The aesthetic is not the only side to hte j park question. There is a ^2^ S ^ Bide, and last, but not" intensely moral side. T he! ????jj^must have diversion. If' , * 4UUi- it in one place it will look for it in another. The diver-: stone to be found on the streets and in loafing places cannot have an ennobling Influence upon the youth-; ful mind. It is but a step from the ' filth of the gutter to the foul at-i mosphere of the pool room, and; yot but another step from the pool room to the fascinations of the. gambling room. Unconsciously the youth drifts front the one to the other and when he awakes to the real situation it is too late. But who is to blame? If he had l>een provided with the proper amuse- i meats during the period when the child-mind was reaching out for diversions it is probublo that he N "vjrould have drifted just as far the' other way. The question of a public play gTOund is not an idle one. i HJvery parent is responsible to its j offspring and the responsibility is one of suth proportions and seriousness that it cannot bo measured by dollars and t't-nts. Real- estate is j enhancing in value every day, and NOW la the tlmo to act. It would be better to postpone the establish- i ment of many other institutions' necessary to the development of our city than to delay a matter of such vital interest to the moral well-fare of the community as the t establishment of n public park. The railroad commission has re-j oelved a letter from a Dillonitc i asking them to require the N. & S. C. railroad to erect a comfortable i passenger station at Dillon. The' railroad commission referred the matter to council with the request have already been put In motion. I of the depot situation it Dillon. <1 The North & South Carolina has a I temporary' wooden station at Dillon. | It is their purpose, wo understand ' to erect a neat, modern passenger and freight station combined where' the present station is located. We: believe there was a bill in the last general assembly requiring railroads to erect union stations in towns entered by two different railroads. If the bill became a law Dillon 8 onld take advantage of her opportunity to secure S union station. The ftter should be investigated be "or*? the N. & S. C-. begins the o erection of their station. And by P the way it would l.e a good idea to * o look irtc the removal of the A. C. I.. ft eight depot at the same time. p . a The Orangeburg Times and Dem- * r ocrat is authority for the statement that the politicians around Colmnbia are very much displeased at Gov. Blouse's course in the executive office and that plans to compass his defeat two years henco " to be advised as to the real status ^ The Times and Democrat based its g assertions on the fact that Gov. n Bleaso's attack upon Senator Till- h man has estranged many of Mr. ^ Blease's former friends whose love ? u for the senior senator is greater ^ than was their admiration for the ii present chief executive. There is 8 no questioning the fact that Senat! tor Tillman has a stronger following in the State at tjie present time than he has had at any other time tl during his long politicul career, and 11 the politician who hopes to P o strengthen the possibilities ol' his ^ own political future by attempting w to discredit Tillman mistakes the j< temper of the people. Tillman may K noi be an Idol of the people, but b g be Las a following that has dug many political graves for those v who dared oppose him. I>oubtle3s tl Governor Blease knows what he is il about, but he is walkiug where an- u n gcLs fear to tread. n U Gov. Blease is exercising the vec to power with a vengeance. He ve- . h toed quite a number of important bills and several large items were n stricken out of the appropriation e bill. If the governor is not a little n more prudent the next general assembly may repeal the law which a gives the chief executive the right h to cut out au item without vetoing I the entire bill, and thus come back 1 at Mr. Blease with a vengeance in ' the matter of appropriations. c 0 t Bone-, of Famous Kxplorcr Found, i Paris, Feb. 11.?After years of F searching, the remains of the famous African explorer Alexander Gordon lining (1793-1826) have been discovered on the Upper Niger by M. Bonnel de Mezieres, who was n intrusted with the mission by the o Governor of French SeDegel. g Laiug, who was a Scotchman, was a killed by natives between Timbuc- l, too and Arawan on September 26, u IS26, while exploring the course of n the Niger on a mission from the g British Government. Other explor- a ers have sought in vain for Icing's a burial place. M. de Mezires collected the tales of the natives and ascertained that c the "Hais," as I.aing was culled, had been killed and buried in a i place called Saebb, thirtv-ono miles c north of Timbuctoo. M. de Mezires h unearthed the bones of the hapless / explorer, which were buried beneath n a tree about throe feet deep. Eaing was the first Kuropean to a visit Timbuctee. which he reached by a journey across the Sahara from o Tripoli. Evidence was collected af- j ter his death that the Tripoli Gov- L ernment had plotted that he should _ be placed in the power of the as- r sassin Burabuschl, who who was appointed an nia guide and murder- ? ed him. v 0 r BANDITS HOLD II' TRAIN. i a ?Continued frum pagb one.) know about the matter." (Signed) i "J. D. Kant, Engineer." ^ F.scaped in Automobile. Gainesville, Ga.. February 18.? j Southern Railway Train No. 36, the j United States fast mail, bound from 1 New Orleans to New York, was . held up by five masked men at j White Sulphur Springs, .four miles from here, at 3:16 o'clock this t morning. The express car was , dynamited and and the contents stolen. First reports said jre , than $100,000 was taken, but . Southern Railway officials declare h the amount was $700. None of the j passengers were molested. The robbers escaped in an automobile and . are now thought to be in Hall couu- j ty, probably bound for north Geor- t gia, where pursuit would bo diffi- j cult. A pose is on the trail. t Bound Oepot Agent, i The robbers broke down the p doors of the railroad station at t White Sulphur, bound the night 4< agent and set the signal for the . train to stop. As the locomotive n slowed up one of the men entered the cab and ordered the enginoer to proceed to Lula. a small Rtaton j several miles away. After a stop 3 was made members of the gang entered the express car and while i ne held the conductor and ex- I >rct>s messenger at the point of uns. others blew open the safe! til btainlng the money. Agent Terrill, of the Southern t ixprcw Company; Deputy United!ja tales Marshal Lanures. Detective ^ luuce. of the Southern Railway.;^ lailway, and Deputy Sheriff Little; ^ re with the posse with blood-1 t ^ ounds In pursuit. : tb . rvt Conductor Thought it Joke. , te, Charlotte. N. C.. Feb. 18.?"1 of bought the whole affair a practi-,th al joke." exclaimed Conductor j, looney, who was in charge of the outhern'g fust mall No. 36 held up W( ear Gainesville this morning, when RC e ended his eventful run at hia jRl ome here at 10 o'clock. j cj, "When I felt the train coming i K] o a stop near White Sulphur I j jn new something was wrong and seizng my lantern. I alighted and: pc tarted for the engine. Just as 1 m, ?ft the coach a husky masked man m brew a pistol into my face and or- . ^ ered me to throw up my hands. m, "I knew some of the fellows in i a, be train were jokers and were in a fj, unny frame of mind, and 1 knockd the gun aside, exclaiming "cut ^ ut this foolishness, I've got toro sok after my train.* The stranger, j rlio looked like a man green at the i ab of truin robbing, pushed the pr un closer to my fuce, and with u ^;) tring of oaths, said: *You d?n iool ja et back into that cur or I wllliey low your head off.* Still uncon-ijjr inced. 1 asked the man wielding ar be gun what he was trying to do, ^ nd he answered: 'We are holding, m( p ihe train and are after what is a the safe in the baggage cav. iet back iu that car d?11 ciuick." j Situation Heali/ed. j "The train was stopped in a deep ut, it was as dark as Egypt, no; elp iu sight, and all I could do ras to comply with the demand. A loment later I heard two terrific xplosions in quick succession. A 513 umber ot passengers started to jth ush out before I could restrain ^i hem. Only two got off the train, *a nd Ibey were quickly huBtled back a* >y the robbers. One of them, John truce, of New Orleans, was shot at,'^ he bullet passing close to his face. w< it? is on nis way to Kast. Waltham, riaf.s. He saw the robbers well and ^ lellevcs he could identify several of | hem. We saw the men disappear nto the woods after the second exilosion." . t* ' 0 ' K Tliej- Have Found a Cure. ~" lliarlotte Observer. & Through reliable reports Hud'E laving behind it the names of repit a.ale physicians, the Btory from I an Franeisco of remarkabable and ImoBt immediate cureH of tubercu-j| osis, pneumonia and typhoid fever ~ h quite lncreditable. Working on a F lew principle discovered by Dr. Ichafer of Barkersfleld, the medical C taif of the Southern Pacific hospitI inoculated nine pneumonia pa- F ients with liquid extract made from S roducta given off by the pneumo- ^ oc-us or pneumonia germ in ! he y irocess of growth. lu every case ^ he patient was cured, several of the > ures following no more than ^4 P mure after the serem'a injection. * i tuberculosis patirnt was pro- fc lounced well within four days after L he Sehafer romody?in this case a % ereiu made from the metabolic or ? ;rowth products of the tuberculosis ft ;erm?had applied. In u Sun Fran-' f isc? dispatch to New York Sun y t is said that conservative praction- j tk who have followed the experi- ^ nents are astonished by the results I iecompiish<-d and declare that the,^ tchafer treatinet will soon be unl-j| rersal in many diseases which have 'V esiated ail methods of treatment., i T Many a time in the history of V nodical progress it lias happened P hat false conclusions were reach- ? d and announced as sound on the \w ilghest authority. The most notable V ase of this was Kock's tuberculin,; w vhich the eminent discoverer t>f;p lie tuberculosis bacillus announced # is a cure, or at least a highly valu-J* iblo remedial agent, for the disease. 4 t was widely heralded and widely ? mployed;but. though expected re-' ? uilts seemed to be obtained at first L --doubtless because they were ex- 5 ?ccted?there was bitter dlsap- I lointment in the end. Koek frank- * y admitted his raistiike, and medical I clence still knows no cure for tu- J icrrulcsis except such rest and | lyginic living as mayy perhaps, en- ** .ble the system to shake off. Fro- | enticn by war on the spread of |J lie bacillus or germ is the watch- T yord now. Episodes like that of1 I* uberculin tend to sandallee all ( rogress in the minds of all sup#il- JP icial, the faddist or the Ignorant. ' w hey should not effect Intelligent. \ ieople thus, but they should cause < 11 reports like the one from San L 'ran cisco to be regarded with skep-; J icism ending subsequent develop-1 L oeuta. _ o L Mr. Frank Thompson, of Dillon, Ji is!ted the town Sunday.?L*ke City f orresponsli nt in Kingstree Record. . 0 | "he Dillon Herald, fl.60 a Tear. ^ ilvOTTS BROTHERS INDICTED. urgrd With Complicity 1b "Bad| er" Came in Wa^ilnyton. Washington. Feb. 17.?Special mes B. Knptta. Benjamin Knotti bert A. Armstrong and Floasi mnett. alias Flossie Knotts, th -a former from Orangeburg coun , 3. C.? were indicted to-day b e grand jury of blackmail. Ac rdlng to the indictment, the quai tte attempted to extort $5,000 ou Charles Rosenthal, by means o e "Badger" game, on Decembe !, last. The indictment alleges that th iman named and the three me: cused Rosenthal of improper re Lions with the woman, who, it wa limed, was the wife of Jame notts, for the purpose of extorl B money from him. According t jsenthal's story as told to th dice he called at thu Cairo apart ents in the evennig, at the wc an defendant's solicitation. Whll ere, he says, her alleged hu3ban ade the accusation against hin, ter tying him to a chair an )urishing a pistol. He was late own photographs said to hav en taken from u closet in th om, which whs brilliantly lighted jsenfhal gave a check to th isband and was released on omise to pay the money the nex y at his place of business. Whe mes Knotts called to get the mon he was arrested. K ntts and hi other were released on bail, an e now at their home in Soutl irolina. Armstrong and the wc an defendants are in jail. OOCSIN OF A11K LINCOLN. \V. Hanks Living at i.'nid, Ok la hoin&?Related to President' Mother. A first cousin of Abraham Lincol lb been discovered in this citj ys an Knid, Okla.. dispatch t e New York Herald. Scores o ographers who have spent time bor and money in tracing the rel lveB, living and dead, of the gree resident have missed this one c e very tew surviving persona wh Esro actually related to Lincoln. This man's kinship come from hi other's side. His name is Josep i lllam HanVi nonhc M??? anks Lincoln, mother of Abrahai incoln. Joseph Hank'B mother an sncy Hanks were sisters. Th nid cousin beurs the name of th SEBBEEE 8 IT V 1 50 i r 8 BENIN J Q Sale to Cora & Every horse what he brinj '4 are all new-sl :N come direct 33 Every man w ,U attend this se Vl If you miss tl MULES S3 I also have in stc A] and young. They Jlj See this fine lot < S c. DA VI AUCTIONEER. 3SES3BSSE. 154S5SSfs5!?5: father of Nancy flanks. Joseph and her grandfather, William. His fathf waa also named Joaeph. The latter died when Joseph William waa a little child, succumbing to the hard. ships of pioneer life in Macon and p Brown counties, Illinois. p It was John Hanks, cousin of the Enid man's father, who gave Mny coin the nickname "Railsplltter" in the Springfield Convention in 1860. ^ The grizzled pioneer, it is related. t walked up the isle of the hall cart rying, with the aid of another, two _ lona. rough rails. on which ??? fastened a banner with an inscripe Hon setting forth that John HankB u and Abraham Lincoln had split , these very rails on the banks af the nearby stream twenty years bes foreJoseph Hanks served through the 0 civil war with the Union army as a member of Company F, Missouri cavalry volunteers. He enlisted in September, 1861, and was mustered e out in November, 1864. At one ^ time he was a bugler and later was commissary sergeant. Of the one g thousand men, who made up the r regiment at the beginning of the struggle only 260 remained to be 0 mustered out. [. 1 Iiefore going to war Joseph Hanks e was a blacksmith, the calling which a hung in the balance with the lega t profession in Lincoln's mind aftc ii his first defeat for the Legislatu*? !_ in 1852. Mrs. llanki cared for h:r 8 two little ones throughout the loig rt conflict, and when the battle of h | Kirksvills took place, on August 6, 1862. she rode on horseback tine miles, carrying her children, to the scene of the fighting in the hop of seeing her husband. He was not there, but she did meet three Irotht. ers who were in the battle. s The mother of Joseph Hauls had no liking for Abraham Linool.. husbuud of her sister-in-law. S?e was , n coin until years after the wa% p. I Q "She knew Lincoln well, v?ry wellj ^ indeed," said Joseph Hank), "but j 5 she hated him heartily. M' mother j I* used to tell us that Lticoln was! ( wrong, and that the North was: wrong. In those days ttere were o fewer newspapers to red, so we studied what books we lad closely. IB ' got a copy of the Oorttitution as k soon as I was big onotgh to read and perused it carefully. The great n question was whether the states ^ which wanted slavery lad a right to .recede from the Unloi. It never e seemed ^o me , in spiti of my mother's argument, that :bey had any EES 333035 A I I/^Tl auv/1 j At My Stables In IETTSVILLE nence Promptly at 11 \Y MARCH put up will be sold [s. No by bidding, hipped horses, all w from National Stoc ^anting to purchase { lie and purchase a at his sale you are the lc MULES >ck nearly one hundred mi are in size from a 15tol6 }f mules before von nnrrl ?> H. B. F EEBB33SS5 such right. 80 very early in lite 1 took sides against the 8outh." Mr. Hanks said that from his Mr- J lyiest manhood Abraham Lincoln despised slavery and declared his in tention of "hitting that a hard blow if he ever got a chance." M An interesting memento if his . services in the army cherished by ^ Jottcph Hanks is a check he receiv- . * ed this year from the United States treasury department balancing his account with Uncle Sam The check Is dravit for .$1.91 . It has not '"been cashed and will not be. aL though the payee might use the V> money to advantage. A letter which accompanied the check sets forth these items: For pay short to November 30 1864 . . . $3.33 (? Clothing short, paid on final dis charge 58 > - Total 1 $3.91 { Lkduct for pay overpaid to December 1, 1861 2.00 Balance $1.91 ^ 'H1 FOR RENT.?Ono 4-room house near business section of Dillon. Ap- N ply to O. R. Pettlgrew. ^ : i -- ? NOTICE. Noitce is hereby given htat spring term of the court of common pleas will convene at Dillon 4 * on Monday, the 20th day of March, 1911, at 10 o'clock a. ni. J no. C. Bethea, I 2-23-4t # C. C. C. P. -I?! | NOTICE. The public will please take uotlce ( that my son. Early Jackson, voluntarily left my home, and as he is ' under the age limit all persons are hereby forbidden to harbor or em- ' ylop him without my consent. , W. R. Jackson. \\ Feb. 19, 1911. 2-3?3t The families of deceased voter- ' ans will please get up their records or have some friend to do so as we are anxious for a complete record 4 j of the veterans of Marion county. ^ A prompt response to this request { ! **111 enable us to give each veteran a printed list on Memorial Day, May ( 10, 1911, of all the Boldiers from Marion county. I Any veterans desiring a cross of . honor will please communicate with the president U. D. C. ^ / Mrs. W. F. Montgomery, Pres. Marion IT. D. C. | ?3333330 ; ION | j 50 ' " - m | fo . J -> s c. jg , OVInnl/ n m M 3 v uuvn a* ui? aj 1 I, II1911 % J ?? regardless of ??* These horses bp! ell broken and ?** :k Yards, 111. . i horse should 04 wholsale price CQ >ser * A TIT TT CCI W Ql| ? iles,all well broken hnBd wagon mule. S j: t/LI?/? g'U